Sustaining life

As I walked around the grocery store, an aery feeling washed over me. The shelves were full, the isles were empty. What was wrong with this picture? Something felt off, I just couldn’t explain what.

It wasn’t until my friend asked the store manager if the asparagus that was expiring that day was ‘on special’ and the store manager said ‘no’ that I realised what made me feel so uneasy about this setting. A store with fully packed shelves and hardly any customers begged the question, where will all this food go?

With this uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach, I started wondering about all the wasted food that gets thrown away. A few days later, I happened to be informed about the current global soil crisis and I started joining the dots.

When one thinks about the climate crisis, we tend to worry about the air, the ozone layer, the oceans, even the forests, but how often do think about the soil? Yes, the soil in which our whole our agricultural industry depends, in order to feed us.

I was introduced to the Save Soil movement headed by Sadhguru, an extremely influential visionary and enlightened master. Sadhguru is dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of our globally degrading soil.

Soil is absolutely integral to our lives. The food we eat is grown in soil that is degrading in nutrients from being over-worked in the agricultural industry and if we continue at this rate, the soil will only last 60 more years.

Humans are notoriously apathetic when it comes to issues that cause long-term damage to the environment. We are masters at ignoring inconvenient truths, however this movement to save our soil is gaining a lot of traction with respected names added to the list of supporters including Jane Goodall, Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and many others.

The bottom line is that the way we are living now is unsustainable. We have inhabited this resource-rich planet and we are relentlessly draining it of its wealth of nutrients and organisms. It will take a collaborative approach to reverse the status quo. The hope is that people move more towards growing their own vegetables and natural produce. Concurrently, the farming industry should create initiatives to rejuvenate their soil.

One way to help our soil is to compost our natural food waste. Instead of it ending up in landfills that create methane, we should all be composting our own food waste and using that compost to improve the nutritional value of our soil. This would lead to a more harmonious relationship with the earth.

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